[Req] iCloud for doc syncbrowsing

I like and use Dropbox, but it would be nice to have an iCloud document sync method in addition to the current Dropbox support. I consider iCloud more secure than Dropbox privacy-wise, and being able to keep documents synced across iPhone/iPad without having to rely on Dropbox would be nice to have, IMO.

Having editorial use iCloud wouldn't allow other apps to access the editorial files as iCloud sandboxes them. So whilst it would be good for syncing inside editorial it wouldn't help with syncing to other apps eg U3.

I think we should be clear about the difference between iCloud (pre iOS8) and iCloud Drive

I would understand "iCloud" support as meaning "iCloud Drive" support since the official release of iOS8. Application's that support iCloud Drive store documents in an application specific folder, but I can browse that folder in Finder and on the Web, much as I do Dropbox folders. I can open an application's files in whatever other application can support the file format. I can save Numbers files in the "Numbers" application specific folder, or somewhere else if I want to. There might be other magic that happens by having application specific user files stored in the application specific iCloud folder but so far I have not noticed anything.

This is what I would like in Editorial. Even if there is no application specific "Editorial" folder, I would like to open and save files to iCloud Drive. I, too, use U3 and I think this is what theorginalbudman was talking about.

Would also love to see this. I live in China and Dropbox has been blocked here for the last few months. I don't see this situation changing so iCloud sync would be great for me. Such a pain to sync anything right now!

I would like the developers input on this but I believe this still falls under the uncompiled code category. The reason we are stuck with a Dropbox sync script is because Apple didn't like the idea of syncing uncompiled code. I think Codea suffers from a similar disability?! A better sync option is much needed. I've resorted to archiving my script library and using Dropbox sync script to send over a single file as it struggled with folders.

A few days ago. I found a script in the pytniosta forums that allow you to archive documents to a zip file. I modified it as an Editorial custom action. If you use "Documents by Readle" you might be able to save the file there (I have to check this out first), and from there you could sync.

Yes, it would probably exclude workflows. Personally, I wouldn't care because I use Editorial almost exclusively to write text with Markdown. I don't want to start another political debate about Dropbox. I do however argue that Editorial needs to implement the Apple standard for cloud syncing if it aims to be about total ios integration.

An Editorial update with icloud drive integration would make this user very happy :-)